The Unlimited God

https://odb.org/MY/2021/09/27/unlimited

God is definitely unlimited whether in time, energy or capacity. He can be everywhere at the same time and can do millions of things at the same time. The universe is infinitely large, but God is bigger than even that. He is busy with the millions that know Him and yet He still finds time to speak to us, to comfort and encourage us.

We, on the other hand, are all limited. We can only be at one place at a time. Although we can multi-task, we are still limited by time and strength. As I get older, my experience is that I tire more easily and thus am physically more limited. Like over the past few weeks, writing 2 board papers while closing 3 contracts in parallel. There are two new projects coming up around the corner where we are already starting preliminary work. The current projects have not been fully closed, contractual awards not finalised and contracts not yet signed and there will be other follow on details – and yet we have to start on another two. These are all transactions that run into millions of MYR and thus we have to all thread carefully and diligently. There are times when I feel that I just want to give up when I look at the overwhelming responsibility and accountability.

The solution, as the many before us had learned as can be gleaned from the pages of the Bible like Moses, Joshua, Caleb, David, Elijah and many others before and after them, is to tap on the infinite and unlimited God. Israel defeated armies much stronger and much bigger than them with God fighting the battle with them. They could bring down the walls of fortified cities like Jericho by following the LORD’s instructions to the tee.

I’m still going through the process but I do pray for His wisdom and strength to be upon me as I plough through the work. A piece of work I thought may take a whole day but sometimes can be done in a few hours or sometimes even 30 mins! That’s my experience of the unlimited God. We can stretch ourselves further. We can do more without breaking. The hours may be long and we may need to work over weekends, over days of annual leave but it can be done, it can be finalised and closed so we could move on to the next. Work never ends but they can be closed one by one, with the grace and power of God with us, backing us up as we move forward. The God of the unlimited is our God! Aren’t we so fortunate and blessed? I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)!